New York Is Now

Colson Whitehead’s civil-rights-era crime novel

Omari Weekes

Already Dead

Joy Williams’s cosmic apocalypse

Justin Taylor

Straight Outta Stockton

Anthony Veasna So’s homage to the Cambodian diaspora

Jane Hu

Hell Can Wait

Jonathan Franzen makes history again

Frank Guan

Free Fallin’

Maggie Nelson’s essays on life, liberty, and the pursuit of indeterminacy

Charlotte Shane